Xu Chengyu (徐承煜) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Chengyu as an official. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xu Chengyu	徐承煜	Xú Chéngyù
Given	Chengyu	承煜	Chéngyù
Personal	Chengyu	承煜	Chengyu
Descriptive kinship	his son Chengyu	其子
Courtesy	Nanshi	楠士	Nanshi
Surname	Xu	徐	Xú
Personal	Xu Chengyu	徐承煜	Xu Chengyu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:465:s0177

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed / 正法 · Place: Caishikou / 菜市 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年正月 · Western Year: AD 1901
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0184, qingshigao:465:s0186

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:465:s0028, qingshigao:465:s0180
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十三年九月甲辰 · Western Year: AD 1897
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0268, qingshigao:195:s0277
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十四年十月癸未 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0279, qingshigao:195:s0288
Source Date: Text: 明年正月 · Western Year: AD 1901
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0184

Family

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Child of Xu Tong (徐桐)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief / 左副都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十三年九月甲辰 · Western Year: AD 1897
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0277
Label: junior secretary in Ministry of Revenue / 戶部小京官 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0179
Label: Left Vice Minister of Justice / 刑部左侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0179
Label: Director / 郎中 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0179

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0277, qingshigao:195:s0288
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0177
Place: Shuntian prefect yamen / 順天府尹署 · Relation: detained-at
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0184

Learning and skills

Credential: senior licentiate by recommendation / 拔貢 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0178

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xu Tong (徐桐)
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0180, qingshigao:465:s0181, qingshigao:465:s0182

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: supervisor · Action: oversaw-executions · Other Person Id: Yuan Chang (袁昶) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0028
Kind: military · Role: captive · Action: seized-by-Japanese · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 聯軍入 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0184, qingshigao:465:s0101
Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十四年十月癸未 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0288

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 195Volume 195 Tables 35: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 9 Lower · 2 passages

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壽昌八月遷。九月甲辰徐承煜左副都御史。 In the eighth month, 壽昌 was transferred. On the jiachen day of the ninth month, 徐承煜: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

徐承煜十月癸未遷。十一月壬戌葛寶華左副都御史。 On the guiwei day of the tenth month, 徐承煜 was transferred. On the renxu day of the eleventh month, 葛寶華: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 6 passages

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時其子監刑，揚揚頗自得。 His son Chengyu oversaw the executions, swaggering with evident satisfaction.

承煜，字楠士。 Chengyu, whose style was Nanshi.

已，聯軍入，桐倉皇失措，承煜請曰：「父芘拳匪，外人至，必不免，失大臣體。 When the allied armies entered Beijing, Xu Tong panicked. Chengyu urged him: "Father sheltered the Boxers; when the foreigners arrive you cannot escape without disgracing your rank.

而承煜遂亡走，為日軍所拘，置之順天府尹署，與啟秀俱明年正月正法。 Chengyu fled but was seized by Japanese troops and held at the Shuntian prefect's yamen; he and Qi Xiu were executed the following first month.

命下，日軍官置酒為餞，傳詔旨，承煜色變，口呼冤，痛詆西人不已。 When the order came, a Japanese officer offered wine and read the edict; Chengyu turned pale, cried injustice, and bitterly denounced the Westerners.

日本軍拘啟秀及徐承煜嚴守之，承煜，桐子也。 Japanese troops seized Qi Xiu and Xu Chengyu and held them under close guard; Chengyu was Xu Tong's son.